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title: So, when he found the mud mixed up with his dinner, he thought it mu… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 17

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So, when he found the mud mixed up with his dinner, he thought it must arise from their carelessness, as it did not seem likely that any one should have put mud there on purpose; but being very kind he did not like to reprove them for it, although this spoiling of the curry was repeated many successive days.

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**Who acts:** Prudhan, dinner, it, curry · **What happens:** find, mix up, think, arise, not seem, put · **To what, where:** mud, carelessness, one, purpose, daughters, spoiling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prudhan, dinner, it, curry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:9:17
# text = So, when he found the mud mixed up with his dinner, he thought it must arise from their carelessness, as it did not seem likely that any one should have put mud there on purpose; but being very kind he did not like to reprove them for it, although this spoiling of the curry was repeated many successive days.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	carelessness	carelessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
28	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux	_	_
34	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	_
35	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	cop	_	_
42	very	very	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	ccomp	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	reprove	reprove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
54	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
55	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	det	_	_
56	spoiling	spoiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj:pass	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	curry	curry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
60	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux:pass	_	_
61	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	advcl	_	_
62	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
63	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Prudhan | the mud |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=Topic |
| 2 | **mix up** | participle |  | the mud *not said here* |  |  |  | with Prudhan's dinner | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with dinner=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Prudhan |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **arise** | must | dinner |  |  | daughters's carelessness |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **seem** | past · do-support | it |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **put** | should · perfect · passive |  | any one |  | purpose; there |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset mud=Goal |
| 7 | **is** | gerund | Prudhan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | Prudhan |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 9 | **reprove** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Prudhan *not said here* | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  | for dinner | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for it=Attribute |
| 10 | **repeat** | past · passive |  | this spoiling of the curry |  |  | day |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 11 | **spoil** |  | the curry |  |  |  |  |  | nom spoiling «process intransitive»: of=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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